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McLuhan @100: Bless the Beatles
- Marshall McLuhan and Harley Parker, Counterblast (2011 marks the centenary of my all-time favourite Canadian, Marshall McLuhan. I’m going to mark the occasion here over the next few weeks by posting...
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McLuhan @100: An “intellectual thug”
“Reading John Dewey for a seminar (it’s a McLuhan/Dewey seminar, and I’m already enjoying McLuhan more by focusing on his ideas as aphorisms and reading more interviews and lectures. He intended most...
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McLuhan Untwists “The Twist”
(Via McLuhan on Maui 2011) MM: “As a matter of fact, we’re not very far from [twisting] right now. We’re in a state of agitated conversation, in which we’re getting pretty close to twist. All we have...
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McLuhan & Xgau
Search results for “mcluhan” at robertchristgau.com: “What makes it even more discomforting is that our former National Pastime has become square. McLuhan and his minions in the big media have almost...
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McLuhan on 45
Jon Savage in an April 2009 record roundup from his blog: Published the same month (March 1967) that The Velvet Underground and Nico was released, Marshall McLuhan’s The Medium Is The Message [sic]...
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McLuhan Mc-Went that a Mc-Way
I’m not done yammering on about McLuhan yet — more specifically about MM’s relationship to rock and to rock criticism (and to “cultural criticism,” more generally speaking) (I haven’t even started with...
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“Fear of Everything”
So of course I always thought Talking Heads were about the individual human units (ha!—and fuck you, Fripp) response to cybernation, depersonalization, the effect of corporate consciousness on...
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I’m a Spitter, I’m a Knitter
I’m a lover, and I’m a Twitter. (From Marshall McLuhan and Harley Parker’s, Through the Vanishing Point: Space in Poetry and Painting, 1968)
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“Fear of Everything”
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